An audit by Stuart Bowen Jr., the inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, shows $300 billion of taxpayer money going down the drain as waste and fraud abound in the war torn country.
Among the waste:
$43.8 million, paid by the U.S. State Department to contractor DynCorp International for a police residential camp in the Baghdad Adnan Palace. But the ground has stood empty for months.
$36.4 million for armored vehicles, body armor, and communications equipment that can’t be accounted for.
$4.2 million for 20 VIP trailers and an Olympic-size pool, all ordered by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior but never authorized by the U.S.
And that apparently only skims of the surface of Bowen's audit report.
The administration of George W. Bush: Incompetent beyond definition.
